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Its going to stay this way for hours to come. we are in that portion of the storm that is just a fire hose. a pipeline of water that is going to continue for hours. and on to that breach that you mentioned we are getting word plaque mine parish flood gate is believed to have failed and theyre trying to get people in the alliance area of highway 23 to safety. we will be tracking that for you in the hours to come, guys. steve: all right. thank you live report from mississippi. ainsley: fox weather...

Damage could be even worse. at least one person has been killed by a falling tree, but of course it is dark and people have no way of finding out what is going on in the dark. the wind at times reaching 150 miles app hour. ripping off as you saw there the roof of a clinic. this is in larose in louisiana. the fierce winds tearing a billboard apart. this was in new orleans. people in some areas reporting flood waters reaching up to their chest in their homes and pleading for rescue. electricity ev...

Generators. all of our generators are working. theyre powered up our pumps. so far weve been able to keep one the rain. god forbid, we lose some of our generators here in st. bernard, because we have to pump our water out. but thats not a concern of ours right now. the big concern is the power. the big power is post storm injuries or death. there is a lot of power lines down, a lot of trees down. we want our citizens to stay inside where theyre at, where they evacuated to. and please wait to hee...

Dont have that problem. we are going to continue to have a problem with the rain water, because if the bumps go out, you cant pump it throughout the city, and thats going to be big challenge tomorrow for them to get the sewage pumps out of the city, and making sure all the sewage lines are back up and running to bump that out. one thing they did do after katrina, most of the hospitals did get large generators to run the hospitals, so i heard there was a problem at one of them and that should be ...

That picture actually we just took, i think, on twitter that you show right now of the gas station in my district where it fell over on one of the pumps, i would say having toured the district top to bottom before we came to do this, by in large limbs being down, power lines being down, trees being down are the biggest issue we saw immediately but, of course, being without power for such a long time is going to be a tremendous issue for all new orleanians. >> lets talk about how, in fact, the ci...

Stability even after the us has left. meanwhile in other headlines today. hurricane ida, landed a category 4 hurricane, and blew through south east louisiana maximum recorded sustained winds of over 240 kilometres an hour. today the search and rescue teams were fanning out across the state to assess the scale of the damage. and it is widespread. there have been reports of people climbing into attics to escape the rising waters flood. its not as bad as katrina, which devestated new orleans 16 yea...

And what that has done is bring more of the core into new orleans, and it has been hours on end of hurricane force winds and the heavy rain and all the impacts that come along with it. new orleans is largely below sea level and the water has to be pumped out. rainwater on a normal summer day — any rain that comes down has to be pumped out. those pumps are dependent on power. they had backup power systems. the main power grid, as you mentioned, is down. they are having catastrophic failures, as...

Catastrophic damage we have already seen from this system. back to you. todd: even if the levees worked, janice, youre mentioning so much rain. its like youre filling a sink that is plugged up and theres no place for the water to go so its going to inundate those communities. again, even if levees work. >> correct. yes. new orleans, its all a pumping system, even if its just a day with rain, they use that pumping system to get the water out and these pumps are working overtime and its really goi...

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>> theres different levels. theyll give flash flood advisories and then flash flood warnings and then flash flood emergencies. typically when they give a flash flood emergency, it means dire, life-threatening situation. get out if you can. they cant get out. hopefully youre in a safe spot, but thats the highest warning they can give to people. if people dont have power in new orleans, theyre sitting there in their dark houses and their phones probably all beeped with this flash flood emergency, ...